More Random Sh*t

Leg day: the most feared day on the workout calendar. I’m only telling you this to give you a heads-up, that 48 hours from now I will be loudly cursing all the things you hold dear as I struggle to walk and to sit on the toilet.

My ongoing retreat from social media

I know it’s a tired story by now, and you’re likely sick of hearing about it. But this is the advantage of now doing all my expositional writing on my personal blog: I don’t care what you think.

Anyway, with each passing day I become more convinced that it was a good idea to retreat from active participation from social media, at least for the time being, due in large part to a recent cultural shift as a puritanical outrage culture seems to have become ascendant.

If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, last week’s episode of Family Guy (“The D in Apartment 23“) really gives it some thickness. In the episode, Brian is rendered a social pariah for tweeting an ill-conceived and mildly offensive joke.

(I apologize for the weird audio. I’m not very good and doing video screen grabs yet.)

It’s all got me feeling like this guy:

I’m getting a lot more sleep these days. (I used to average 3-5 hours per night, but now for some reason I’m doing 7-9 hours). But I wake up with a twitching left eye and a desire to strangle someone. So clearly I have some issues that need working out. Angrily tweeting shit is not the best way to deal.

The Overly Complicated Breakfast(s)™

Here are the last three breakfasts:

From Friday Nov 17: I temporarily abandoned by hard-won fake vegetarianism for a day and enjoyed eggs scrambled in yogurt, a grilled striploin steak, three turkey meatballs, plantains fried in coconut oil, a vagabond leftover spring roll, and broccoli and kale sauteed in ghee.

Speaking of sci-fi-related things, I saw Justice Leagueyesterday. I’m thinking about whether or not to write a review. I mean, does anyone really care? I suppose it doesn’t matter. If I feel like writing a review, I will write a review.

One of the smarter (but with considerably less heart) incarnations of my favourite sci-fi franchise, Stargate, is Stargate Universe, which ended on a cliffhanger in 2011, after only two seasons. Well, now there’s a canonical comic book series that finally aims to complete the tale. I just ordered the first issue.

And guess what? Two new episodes of Science Monkey are in the can and will be streaming very soon indeed….